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sloowm
·ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
This is the absolute opposite take of what is actually happening. We are in the most capitalist time ever. There are a few people who own all the wealth, 2 of them are also in control of the most powerful government. This is capitalism baby, enjoy the full wrath.
sloowm
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Makes sense why I've not seen gates in many places but metro networks and high speed.

I agree that there will always be spots where the rails can be reached. As with many parts of human behavior, if there is more friction less people will do the thing. Since there are many instances where this is a temporary state and seeking and finding help can always be difficult I think creating that frictions is also worthwhile. Making sure people are prevented from feeling suicidal and being happier is something I also fully support.
sloowm
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I'm not sure what the situation is in Denmark and guess you live in a less populated area. But if you travel by train you would ideally take public transport to the main hub. A decent network would connect you to a fairly big hub within 45 minutes. If you really live in the outskirts there should be some sort of hub where you can go by car.

In Denmark specifically the border policy causes some slowdown. Other than that it probably has the same issue as the Netherlands where the trains that go across the border are infrequent and don't connect to major hubs. This creates a lot of friction in the entire network which makes the entire proposition fall apart. If you have to cross more than one border you really get into some hellish territory, speaking from experience.
sloowm
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
You can thank all local train operators for this. They have been fighting a shared ticketing system tooth and nail at the European level and the weak politicians in Europe who don't push for a shared system.

There is a legislative proposal but that will take years and operators are going to try and get around it: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-train/spotlight-J...
sloowm
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
There are things that can be done about people jumping in front of trains. Making sure the rails are not accessible with fences around them. Putting camera's at spots where people can get past the fences. In high risk stations you can put walls and gates in that only open when a train can be boarded.

It's all just a lack of investment. If the budget for rail and other infrastructure matched the budget for car infrastructure rail would be way better than cars.
sloowm
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
So because we want to keep government small and ad companies can get so big they basically invade every part of your life you have to leave your phone, close your eyes, stay offline, just move bro. This doesn't seem like a very serious or productive line of reasoning.
sloowm
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
If I walk outside I'm bombarded by ads. Almost all websites have been tailored to include ads and hide information. You're tracked on all devices you touch.

Vaguely referencing more laws or larger government doesn't mean anything. We're not talking about all problems but a specific one. There is an obvious imbalance between the power and information an individual consumer can use to shield themselves from activities by companies that are detrimental to them. We are also not expected to test our own food for toxins.

More platitudes and soundbites doesn't have to be the answer to all problems.
sloowm
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
This looks like it's going to be a huge issue once the news spreads more. Basically all Intel 13th and 14th gen consumer CPU's can't be trusted and changing the clocks doesn't help.

Which means basically no company with desktop compute needs will be using Intel consumer chips. I feel like this is the start of an Intel Boeing moment.

It seems to be at least partially related to SMT which Intel is dropping for the next generation. So this might help them in solving the issue for the next generation.
sloowm
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
In most video's you see the lifeguard jump in and get the person out.
sloowm
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
If your kid can't swim you shouldn't let it go in on its own. There is no reason to spoil the fun for everyone.

You can ban all fun or tell parents to use common sense and have a backup for idiot parents.

In this specific pool I would also create a barrier/line between the shallow bit of the pool and the deep end. In some of the videos the kids end up in the deep end by just playing, even without the floating devices.

Also kids should be taught to swim at a young age. At least where I'm from there are many places where kids can fall into the water.
sloowm
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
There are many laws against advertising cigarettes for instance. There could be similar laws against unhealthy foods and alcohol. Lets try all these things before we say laws are not effective against these things and evaluate after.

In smoking it has had a huge impact.
sloowm
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I think this is very naive. The whole reason marketing is so lucrative is because the human brain is so easily exploited. That exploitation is to no benefit of society or the individual and an individual practically stands no chance against it.

We also don't allow drugs to be distributed and marketed. There are many limitations to cigarette sales and they have shown to be successful.

Maybe the next thing someone sleepwalks into is a pleasant conversations with people or coding a great open source project and that is not something that needs to be fixed.
sloowm
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
The other option is someone scouring through the mess of commits to find out what should be in the changelog or you have to update the changelog with each commit to the main branch. Which brings you back to the extra step on top of things you need to do.

So this is a way to reduce overhead, you need to write a commit message anyway so why not reuse that effort.

"Simple" projects like curl use their commit messages for the changelog.
sloowm
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
This argument only makes sense if you think of Apple as an entity that has a nationality. It's an internationally traded company that is therefore owned by international money. The stars would have to align in a very special way for 50% of the shareholders to agree that it's to Apple's strategic benefit to leave the EU.

It also underestimates the costs of leaving the EU or any country. In a lot of cases there are laws against leaving a countries market. I doubt the shareholders want Apple to go into such a fight.

Any extra work it requires to comply can be offset by price increases if Apple needs to recoup those losses.
sloowm
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
You not understanding what my comment means is incredibly thematic.
sloowm
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
That background would make you explicitly unqualified to asses the quality of box plots as a visualization method. Box plots are used throughout various fields of research that are far less mathematical in nature.
sloowm
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Are you sure that well trained audiences are able to accurately asses box plots. For instance, most drivers think they are better than average drivers.

It being a staple in statistics is also not a good argument. The information conveyed through box plots is used in lots of fields with different education backgrounds. If a visualization, which in itself is a human simplification of data, is hard to understand, it will be misunderstood by some. This means these people will not be able to advance their field of research as well as with better visualization methodologies.
sloowm
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Why would you even use plots at all. You could just show the numbers for the 4 points represented in the box plot and people with proper education would understand. If people need diagrams it's just an education problem with some audiences.

But the real education deficit shown here is psychology education. Humans are bad at doing some calculations inherently. They are not able to properly asses pie charts and easily confused by numbers with a lot of digits. Even before these studies were done people were able to come up with visualizations that were better suited for human understanding.

People chose to use box plots because the visualization was better to understand by people than the numerical representation of the same information. Luckily there are now even better tools to represent the same numerical data in a way that is even better to understand.

So, if you are truly educated properly you don't use visualization.
sloowm
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
You absolutely should stop using box plots. The only reason to use them is because you have to draw a representation by hand and do not have access to a computer.

A box plot is a data compression technique for compression by hand. There are now better automated techniques that both preserve data quality and visual quality better.
sloowm
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Never apply Hanlon's razor to that which can be adequately be explained by disregard for the consequences.